Chemia

Oh Chemia dark beauty
Your past in magick shrouded
Encased in wonder and longing
Our souls desire knowledge of you

From misty origins you come
Your story locked by key
Elemental dances you perform
Our existance within your potions told

Chemia
Oh Chemia
Alluring mistress philosophy
The world, our thoughts, beliefs and realities
You hold within your grasp

In times untold
The darkness of most distant past
You lived and breathed
Though we knew you not

As history danced on
And our celestial home settled into form
Chemia your wonders began to show
As man saw you for the first

Chemia
Oh Chemia
Alluring mistress philosophy
The world, our thoughts, beliefs and realities
You hold within your grasp

Solva et Coagula
Paracelsus, Imad ul-din, Zosimos and Empedocles
You captivate us through time unending
Your story unfolding with mystery

Panacea of transformation
Stone that is key to the neverending life
Your truths are shrouded in codes
Layers of allegory fence your secrets

Chemia
Oh Chemia
Alluring mistress philosophy
The world, our thoughts, beliefs and realities
You hold within your grasp


Thank you to Mendeleev
Who brought you from obscurity available now for all
So all mankind can admire your beauty
We may all know some of your endless wisdom

As time grows long
And history writes more tomes for the shelves
Quantum physics opens more of your realms
And we drink in your elixer of life

My Deep

Building tears
Building fears
Building paths to the darker places
Burying all beneath the rolling waves
So I dive in
Every drop within I have made
Below the surface I swim

I am standing in my ocean
There in my deep
There will I be
Why have I been so blind
To all that is hidden
There in my deep

Floating from the silt come the questions
He or she
One or them
Where is love
Alone and yet surrounded by my darkness
Not even the lunar tide light
Dares to come in here
Pulled apart, dragged below
Things I never wanted to know
Parts of me
Buried deep
Surface now for me to see
Driving me to insanity
Nowhere to cling
Within my depth I am drowning
Truth surrounds and breaks the lies I am living

Where the dark reaches dwell
There in my deep
There will I be
Why have I been blind to all that is hidden
There in my deep

It is illusion
Shattering all that I am
What to believe
What to reflect
What to embrace
Where am I
No path within this watery vastness
All is dark
All is heavy
No breath to take

Struggling to the surface
Breaking into the tide
Swept away by the ride
Struggling to hold on

And there I see the path
Upon the surface breaking through the dark
A hand, a breath
I am alive
Now I know
My ocean
My dark
My depth

To forget

From the heat
It snakes
Up
My within
To my without

Like the smoke
From fire
Twisting
All around
Up my chimney

Blowing ever more
Upwards gorge
Heaving
Rolling insides
Fighting to expell

The monster within
Clawing free
Release
Roaring pain
Coming from me

I can't stop
The fear
Horror
The sickness
Of trust betrayed

But when seen
The monster
Me
Or them
In truth remain

It matters not
It ends
Planted
It's revenge
Of my mind

Moving on alive
But damaged
Torn
Wanting oblivion
Gaining refined memory

Luna

From the darkness of your past you rise
Never quite the same
Your dance reveals you night by night
A mistress once again
Growing brightness, breathing light
Like promises made real
With time your crescent grows in might
A shinning curve of steel

Luna where are you now?
Upon your dance of light
Washing, pulling, guiding life
We bow to your ancient tow

Goddess, Mother, Sister are you
From Pangea to Continants seven
You have danced your path stone by stone
Fully enshrined in heaven
Beautiful guide, intriguing unknown
Your mystery is a wonder
Wherever your distant voice intones
It shakes in silver thunder

Luna where are you now?
Upon your dance of light
Washing, pulling, guiding life
We bow to your ancient tow

And now your time draws near it's end
The steps of your dance are spent
For round the stars and distance by distance
You grew then lessened again
Wonderous lady, shinning persistance
Now your crescent wains
Always you live in timeless existance
Though only your darkness remains

Stillness

So I retreat
Into the place
Where silence reigns
Stillness encased
From painful speech
Silent release
I find my place
Robed in peace

And so I go where chaos flows
No more denied
My soul rebirthed
Embracing my own truths in love
I now have peace
My path unearthed

The pain is gone
Reprimands fade
My speech of old
To rest is laid
I will now go
Where I am meant
Down paths of silence
I am sent

And so I go where chaos flows
No more denied
My soul rebirthed
Embracing my own truths in love
I now have peace
My path unearthed

No more in haste
My words shall harm
In wisdom I
Give up their charms
That place for me
Awaited long
Returning there
From journeys song

In stillness keep
In silence be
In truth remain
That space of me

The lie

The lie that you are
You hide it so well
Under the silver light
Behind the knowing glance
Words on a page
Making fast the trap
The pretence of involvment
You attract
You ensnare
You deceive
Saying one thing
Doing another
And all the while
Stirring the pot
And standing back
To smell like a rose
United with a worm
No more will your thorn burrow
No more will your worm infect
With the strength of truth
By the gift of grace
I know what you are
I pity you
I know where you are headed
Saved from your lies
I have only to forget

Summer afternoon

Like gold
The light caresses
A gilding of edges
A glow of beauty
The kiss of afternoon
The hum of bees
Drifting with the seeds
Floating in the breeze
A lovely moment
The touch of the divine
To renew my day